Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-05
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A Lively Railroad Fight In Portsmouth
Rapid Trsnsportation-A Body
Washed Ashore.


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NoRRoLK, Va, March 4, 1887.
The British steamship Albany cleared
Yesterday with 60, 500 bushels OF North
Carolina corn for Europe, the first ship
ment Of the kind to Europe for long
| time from this port.
The large elevator Of the Norfolk and
Western railroad, at the east end Of
| Main street, is now finished, and it il
fair to presume that grain-shipping will
soon DO prominent business OF this
| port, ms the Norfolk and Western road,
with its connections to Kansas City, has
made arrangements for heavy move
ment OF grain from the Northwest to
the Seaboard. ~
The railroad and anti-railroad men Of
Portsmouth are having meetings night
ly, and the fight is now very bitter over
the matter of subscribing $3.50, 600 to
the proposed Atlantic and Danville
road. The advocates have q final rally
tonight and the election takes place to-
morrow. The fate OF the subscription
is q matter OF considerable doubt, as the
people are divided in opinion and get
ting excited over it,
The opening OF the fishing season in
the Carolina sounds has sent O great
many small vessels from this port to
that section.
The cotton sales here yesterday
amounted to 3, 412 bales, caused by the
advance in the market.
Rev. j. ID. Blackwell, ID. d., pastor
of the Monumental Methodist Episco-
pal church, has gone to Richmond.
Some uneasiness is felt here for the
overdue steamer Peerless, which was
last spoken in Bogue sound, N. O.,
since which time nothing has been
heard of her.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Norfolk Southern railroad was held at
Elizabeth, n. c., yesterday. Most of the
old Board of Directors were reelected,
and subsequently the directors reelected
the old officers, with M. X. King as the
general manager of the company. The
managers annual report alluded to ex-
teDsive water communications made
south of Edenton, enabling the road to
extend its connections up the Roanoke
and Tar rivers and connect with the
North Carolina Central railroad.
Captain Lander, the underwriters
agent, left for Cape Charles last night
to look after the underwriters interests
in the vessels reported ashore at that
point. -
Shad and other fish caught in the
Albemarle sound are now shipped in
the afternoon at o'clock from Eden
ton. n. c., and the next morning at 8
o'clock are in New York ready for mar
ket. Later on truck and other perish
able freights are to be run from the
Sound region on the same rapid sche-
dule.
In the collision between the tug
Portsmouth and the oyster-sloop Edith
Towel near Cape Charles and the sink
ing of the latter the crew of the sloop
escaped only in their night-clo.hes,
having no time to save anything from
the vessel. Every thing on board is a
total loss, including S475 in cash. To-
tai damages about $4,000.
Mr.. Charles A. Stewart, OF Norfolk
county, has been appointed to a per-
manent clerkship in the Office Of the
Comptroller of Currency, in Washing
ton.
The town Of Berkeley, opposite this
city, has petitioned the County Court
for vote ON local option, having Sc
cured DOT voters to the petition, the
requisite number required by law. In
various sections of Norfolk county the
liquor traffic is inhibited.
Last night the body of a white man
washed ashore at Ocean View. The
body is apparently that of sailor and
badly decomposed.
A northeasterly storm is prevailing
here to-day. G.